I think adding an intermediate dialog for theme selecting, with "preview on select" would lead to the least surprises for users.
And why does it have to be a menu item? I never switch themes.. For me it could be just as well in the preference pane.
Koen
Op 10 jan. 2016 om 23:43 heeft Allan Odgaard mailinglist@textmate.org het volgende geschreven:
On 30 Dec 2015, at 18:10, dipnlik wrote:
I think having the item chooser immediately switch to a theme, once it gets selected in the list, would make it a lot more useful (while still a bit hidden).
I'd be worried about accidentally selecting themes this way. If I'm looking for something else and stumble upon a theme, immediately switching to it would be a big unexpected visual effect.
Could make it so that the theme switch is reverted unless the dialog is closed with a confirming action (return or the select button). Also, the themes only show up among the items, if one switch the scope bar to “Other”.
I was leaning more to improve the View → Themes menu. Maybe list all dark themes, a divider, then all light themes?
That could also work, I’ll probably give that a try.
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